James M. Barrie Quotes

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?

James M. Barrie

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: playwright
  • Nationality: british
  • Birth: May 9, 1860 - June 19, 1937

Topics

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Young black men in this country have to understand that they have a responsibility. They cannot be the enemy in their own neighborhoods and usurp the effort of good people that are trying to make things work.

Jim Brown

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Art is the triumph over chaos.

John Cheever

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I'm not retiring.

Mel Tillis

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We study, as Americans, the extreme aspects of repression under the Stalinist era. We're focused on them. The vast majority of Russian citizens, it was a much softer type of being disconcerted.

Amor Towles

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Most of the time, I get auditions for deaf characters where the scene has them communicating in really convoluted ways, like reading lips from across the room when the other person's back is turned or having other people parrot what they say.

Shoshannah Stern

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In troubled times the last thing you want to do is to stick your money into a film. It's such a gamble.

Robert Carlyle

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I live in Greenwich Village in New York City, but I rarely write at home, where there's too much else to do.

Chris Pavone

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Nearly everyone says New York is their number one city in the world, don't they? It certainly is mine. But I feel like the ship sailed for me in terms of living in New York because I think you need to live there when you're in your 20s - when you can be poor and energetic and just don't care.

Cillian Murphy

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I can go to festivals and open spaces, but if I'm in a crammed room with a bunch of people - oh my God.

Brendon Urie

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If you laid all our laws end to end, there would be no end.

Arthur Baer

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Furthermore, the unearned increment from land appears in the United States as a gain to the first comers, who have here laid the foundations of a new State.

William Graham Sumner

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If we expect to continue our leadership in the global economy, we must invest in a long-term transportation plan -f or both highways and transit programs. Too many of our roads, bridges, and railways have fallen into disrepair.

Sherrod Brown

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